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I would like to ask a question. What is the difference between the government using taxpayer money to bail out investment banks, who have made bad management decisions, and bailing out General Motors, which has also made bad management decisions? Or put another way, how can the administration justify logically bailing out one publicly-traded company and not another? After all, we still have had no proof that the collapse of these investment firms was really going to cause the collapse of the American economic system, anymore than the collapse of General Motors.

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